Utility and animal shears



Dec. l5, 1936. H. W. cARRu-:R

UTILITY vAND ANIMAL SHEARS Filed April 28, 1956' r W 0. W.

w, @Kmn Patented Dec. 15, 1936 UNITED STAES UTILITY AND ANIMAL SHEARS Hiram W. Carrier, Atlantic, Pa. Application April 28, 1936, Serial No. 76,835

2 Claims.

o animal shears and and it aims to provide a novel construction of shear which is adapted to be sold ready for use.

It is generally aimed to structions and particularly for preventing the sticking provide existing conwith respect to means of the shears into the animals hide, to provi-de a bevel of the cutting edge wider at the point tha gradually diminishing from n at the rear end and the point towards the latter end, to provide a novel bumper adjacent one blade for abutment by the o ther blade and to provi-de a novel strap to prevent the hands from moving out of place, to provide necting the strap to the bows of the handle novel means for conand to provide a blade which is straighter at its cutting edge than heretofore allowing for a larger bite. Various additional objects and advantages will become apparent from a co nsideration of the description following taken in connection with accompanying drawing illustrating an operative ernbodiment.

In said drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of animal shears constructed in accordance with the invention;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 2--2 of Figure l;

Figure 3 is an end elevation at the handle; Figure 4 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 4--4 of Figure 1;

Figure 5 is a detail longi tudinal sectional View showing the mounting of the bumper and Figure 6 is a plan view of one section of the buck strap.

Referring specifically to the drawing wherein like reference characters designate like or similar parts, the animal shears or the like have similar blades at I whose cutting edges are relatively straight and beveled as at II, with the bevel at the points wider than at the opposite ends, and gradually diminishing in width from the points to the latter ends. tion of the points of the the animal, the same are g blunt at an angle as at I2.

In order to prevent penetrablades into the hide of round off or rendered blades toward each other.

such contact, one of the lugs Figures 1 and 5, is provided which snugly receives tion I6 on abumper I1, rubber or any suitable, pre

In order to cushion I4, as best shown in with a dovetail slot l a similarly shaped projecthe latter being of leather,

ferably flexible material, which it will be noted, is disposed in the path of movement of the other lug It.

Sai-d handles I3 at their rear ends have arcuate bows I8 which are resilient and enable the handles to be pressed toward each other and then spring apart so that the cutting edges of the blades will co-act, it being realized that such cutting edges are beveled from opposite sides and each from one side only as best shown in Figure 4.

The bows I8 have inwardly extending contacting portions secured together in any suitable manner as by means of welding, a rivet I9 or both, or otherwise.

To prevent undue movement of the hand along the shears while being used, a buck strap is provided consisting of two sections 2t and 2 I. Said sections are preferably of leather or equivalent flexible material and the section 22 is riveted as at 22 to one of the handles i3. The free end of such section 2t has a plurality of openings 23 therethrough whereby the section 2U may be detachably connected to the pin 24 pivoted to an intermediate cross bar 25 of a buckle 26 carried by the buck strap section 2l.

Saidbuck strap section 2l consists of a single strand or length provided intermediate its ends with a slit 2l whereby it may straddle the cross bar 25 with the pin extending through the slit 21. The strap thus doubled upon itself is anchored on the inwardly extending portions of the bows I8 by projection of the latter through aligning slits 29 of such section 2i. Thereupon, the section 2l is looped about the bows and the opposite end including the buckle 26, is passed through the slits 28 as shown in Figure l, thus detachably anchoring the same on the bows i8.

It will be understood that in addition to using the shears for shearing sheep, that they may be used for reaching horses maries, clipping grass, trimming hedges and other purposes in which a ne cutting edge would be adaptable and suggested.

Various changes may be resorted to provided they fall within the spirit and scope of the invenlooped about the projecting portions, and a sec- .5

to one of the handles and at the other end having an opening through Which the inwardly extending portion projects, the strap having a portion passed through the opening to surround part of the handle whereby the strap is secured to said pro- 5 jection.

HIRAM W. CARRIER. 

